Shortcut Problem
I placed shortcuts to MS Word and Excel in my shortcut area on my work computer. The shortcuts themselves appeared on my home computer, but they don't do anything at home. My guess is that this has to do with the fact that the folder path for the applications is different on the two computers because the user names are different. However, that doesn't make application shortcuts very helpful.
Dave
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You would probably need the ability to edit the shortcut target path, then create and add an environment variable so the shortcut can find the path to the executable file even when the path varies. An easier solution may be to add a shortcut from both computers. There may be a way to caption the shortcuts in a future release.
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Melissa,
I thought about making a second shortcut, but then that clutters up the shortcut bar. Having a shortcut to Word or Excel is by no means necessary, but it is kind of cool.
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David B Phillips said:
Melissa,
I thought about making a second shortcut, but then that clutters up the shortcut bar. Having a shortcut to Word or Excel is by no means necessary, but it is kind of cool.
I believe you can create a javascript and put that in the shortcut menu that could be smart enough to open it in either location. I've only slightly dabbled in js but from what i have done with it I think it would be fairly simple.
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That's a good idea, David.
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Unfortunately, there's no javascript support in 4.0 toolbars. We aren't scriptable in the same way.
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Bob Pritchett said:
Unfortunately, there's no javascript support in 4.0 toolbars. We aren't scriptable in the same way.
maybe I'm not thinking rightly about how this works, I've only done enough to be dangerous, but couldn't I write a javascript in notepad, save it as a .js file, put a shortcut for that on the shortcut pad and have it run when I click on it? or would that only open the javascript as a textfile?
Also, does that mean no smarttags?
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